What's Next?

This book contains three chapters, each dedicated to one of the main aspects of LINQ. The content assumes you're comfortable with C# generics, delegates, and anonymous methods. You can learn and use LINQ without a deep understanding of these topics, but the more you know about them the faster you'll grasp LINQ's concepts and implementation.

Chapter 1 discusses LINQ to Objects, with a sample program that illustrates its major functionality.

Chapter 2 provides a complete description of LINQ to SQL (LINQ's components for accessing relational data) and its great functionalities. A rich sample program demonstrates its features.

Chapter 3 covers LINQ to XML (LINQ's components for accessing XML data). You'll see how to generate XML from queries and interrogate XML documents to retrieve data by using LINQ syntax.